After several days of hard work, the soldiers' heatstroke symptoms finally eased, and Rong Chengxuan breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did the soldiers secretly congratulate Prince An for his foresight, having attacked Rongcheng at night and Shapingcheng at night.
There is a big temperature difference between the night and the day in the desert. They took advantage of the cool daytime to fight a beautiful battle. The Divine Fire Camp used that terrible thing called gunpowder, bombs or grenades to scare the Western Zhou army to death, which gave them a chance to breathe and adapt.
No one knew how many days it would take for the Western Zhou army to recover. Everyone felt satisfied when they thought about how those Western Zhou soldiers had escaped in the past few days. They were even more impressed by their own prince and the princess who was still in Cizhou City.
I feel more admiration for the princess. If it weren't for the grenades, gunpowder bombs and other things made by the princess, this battle would not have been so easy to fight.
As expected by Beichen's soldiers, the Western Zhou army was really frightened and scared crazy in the battles of the past few days, so much so that the soldiers retreated to Daxing City for several days and still could not recover.
When they first learned that the second prince of Western Zhou was blown away by a pitch-black weapon from Beichen, they found it hard to believe. But until they saw the weapon called "thunder" in the hands of the Beichen people, they realized that the person who brought the news was not lying, and there really was such a weapon that could blow people into the sky.
Jiang Younan, the general of the Western Zhou Dynasty, fell seriously ill upon returning to Daxing City. He could not sleep even though he was sick, because whenever he closed his eyes, he would hear a rumbling sound in his ears, which kept him awake all night long.
Jiang Younan, a general of the Western Zhou Dynasty, had been highly regarded by the king for many years. It was precisely because of this favor that he was appointed as the main general in the war against Beichen. He had long admired the fourth princess of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Before he set out on the expedition, the king promised him that as long as he won the battle, he would betroth the princess to him.
Before he left for the battle, he had already asked the servants in the mansion to prepare the wedding room and other things first. What a pity! He miscalculated. He only expected the most favorable development direction for himself, but he didn't expect that Prince An sent by Beichen would actually have such a powerful general to come to fight.
He had never imagined that Rong Chengxuan, that pretty boy, would fight so fiercely. With just a few swipes, the battle was over before they could react. However, the winner wasn't them, but Beichen.
While recuperating in Daxing Prefecture, Jiang Younan cursed Yun Jinjiang in his heart. Before attacking Beichen, he secretly contacted Yun Jinjiang, a former frontier general. He blamed Yun Jinjiang for not telling him in advance that Rong Chengxuan actually had such a powerful weapon. To this day, he still couldn't figure out what it was.
Later, some people said it was thunder from the sky, and even news from Beichen said that Prince An of Beichen was a god descended from heaven, but he didn't believe it! Those words were obviously used to deceive children. Rong Chengxuan was flesh and blood, just an ordinary person who was good at fighting.
But if Rong Chengxuan wasn't a god, how could one explain the weapons used by his army? He had fought for half his life, and had never seen anything so terrifying as this, capable of literally collapsing the walls of Shaping City. Even the Second Prince of the Western Zhou Dynasty, known for his Dragon Swallowing Formation, had perished under that weapon.
When Jiang Younan saw that weapon for the first time, he was stunned while standing on the battlefield. If the soldiers had not desperately pulled him down when the first loud noise came, he would have been buried under Shaping City by now, right?
Jiang Younan's illness improved on the fourth day. He immediately summoned all the generals to the prefectural government to discuss military affairs. People analyzed the matter again, but to no avail.
However, someone saw the form and usage of the thunder clearly, and after telling Jiang Younan about it, he suggested again: "General, why don't we find a way to steal it!"
But how to steal it? Jiang Younan also thought this method was good. At least steal one or two and let them study it themselves. After a while, when they have developed this weapon, they can also stand there and fight against Beichen's army.
So Jiang Younan began to think about the plan of stealing, to see how he could steal that novel thing from Beichen's army without alerting Rong Chengxuan's army.
But at the same time, someone else said, "Besides the thunder, there's also something they buried in the ground. I watched from a distance, and anyone who stepped on it was immediately blown away. When the person fell to the ground, I couldn't tell if it was a human or just a pile of meat."
As soon as the man finished speaking, Jiang Younan made a decision immediately and slammed the table on the spot, "Steal! Must steal!"
He thought for a moment, then gave the order, "Contact Deputy General Jiang at the border. General Yun has been transferred, but the men he left behind are still here! Tell him that he has to figure out a solution for this matter! Only he can steal that thing without alerting Rong Chengxuan."
Jiang Younan's body had recovered, but the anger in his heart could not be dispelled for the time being. After defending Shaping City for so many years, it was captured in one night, and the attack was so severe that he didn't even have the opportunity to fight back. Just thinking about it made him feel frustrated.
What's more, they were beaten by Beichen so badly that they didn't even have the strength to fight back. In the past, they were the ones who were beaten by Beichen, but now it was Beichen who was beating them. Not only did they lose the cities on the border of Beichen, but they couldn't even defend their own city. If they continued to fight at this pace, I'm afraid that in a few days, the Western Zhou Dynasty would be directly named after Beichen.
This matter absolutely cannot be concealed. The capital will soon receive the news. Moreover, the second prince, the most proud of the king of Western Zhou, also died at the hands of Rong Chengxuan. If the king knew about this, I don't know how angry he would be.
Jiang Younan felt a buzzing pain in his ears just thinking about it. His Jiang family was finally going to make a humiliating entry in the history of military exploits. When he died, he didn't know how to face the ancestors of the Jiang family.
What if the monarch suddenly gets angry and blames him for the second prince's death? Not to mention marrying the princess, whether he will still be alive is another matter. Jiang Younan felt that his head and ears were in danger just thinking about it.
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